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philosophy

philosophy

190 6.7
The study of basic questions about life, knowledge, and reality
  • noun
  • /fəˈlɑːsəfi/
translation icon : filosofía
  • Many students enroll in philosophy courses to explore fundamental questions about knowledge and ethics.
  • political philosophy
  • philosophy of science
  • moral philosophy

That is an explanation of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

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Examples

  • In college, I studied philosophy to understand different views on existence and reality.

  • All his writings in political and social philosophy attest to his admiration for things British.

    Academic text (1999)
  • I believe your philosophy of life is a key point.

  • I learned that in my philosophy class.

  • Welcome to my philosophy class.

  • I was a professor of philosophy.

  • My father spent all his time at study... at books of learning and philosophy.

  • Teaching classical texts of political philosophy in an age of visual media is a difficult business.

    Academic text (1999)
  • I wrote my undergraduate thesis at Harvard on the philosophy of John Dewey.

  • The professor lectured on ancient Greek philosophy and its impact on modern thought.

Compounds

moral philosophy
  • Specialized
3 6.8

The study of right and wrong and how people should behave

2 8.4

The study of the physical world and its laws, like early physics

A part of a university where people teach and study ideas about life and knowledge

Doctor of Philosophy
  • Specialized
1 5.4

A university degree that shows you did new research after several years of study

A study of ideas about law and how it should work

A philosophy that says people create their own meaning by choosing freely and taking responsibility

9.9

A way of thinking about teaching that supports women's rights and equal schooling

A view that knowledge comes mostly from what we learn through our senses

Ideas that say people are free and responsible for making their own meaning and values

A person or idea at the start of modern philosophy

An early Greek way of thinking about nature and the universe that explains things without using myths

9.9

Study of ideas that values inner feeling and spiritual belief over facts

How Theoretical

metaphysics
3 9.9
theory
3.2
philosophy
190 6.7
opinion
1.0
idea
1.0

Surface Forms

philosophy singular
philosophies plural

Etymology

Philosophy comes from Greek parts philo- 'love' and -sophy (from sophia) 'wisdom', so it literally means 'love of wisdom'. As a subject, philosophy studies big questions about knowledge, life, and what is real, which is why it is a search for wisdom.